I am clear what I want of the clergy. I want them to be people who can by their own happiness and contentment challenge my ideas about status, about success, about money, and so teach me how to live more independently of such drugs. I want them to be people who can dare, as I do not dare, to refuse to work flat out (since work is an even more subtle drug than status) to refuse to compete with me in strenuousness. I want them to be people who are secure enough in the value of what they are doing to have time to read, to sit and think, and who can face the emptiness and possible depression which often attack people when they do not keep the surface of their mind occupied. I want them to be people who have faced this kind of loneliness and discovered how fruitful it is, as I want them to be people who have faced the problems of prayer. I want them to be people who can sit still without being guilty.
Quoted by Graham Norvic, Bishop of Norwich, in the 2000/2001 Handbook of The Association of Ordinands & Candidates for Ministry
‘what is striking is the fact that the modernist works and experiments which are most deeply convincing and moving, those which have lasted, have been precisely those which went beyond subjectivism - e.g., among others, the works of [Rilke, Proust, Mann, Eliot, or Kafka].’
Charles Taylor, ‘Sources of the Self’, p. 506
‘the birth of organizational aesthetics in the early 1990s heralded a welcome recognition that processes of human sensemaking, organizing and managing at work are far more sensuous, embodied, passionate and 'aesthetico-intuitive' (Gagliardi 1996, 576) than traditional modernist organizational discourses had tried to make out.’
André Spicer, 28 November 2003 posting to SPOON-ANN list